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I ARMY DICTATORSHIP FEARED !
BY IRISH FREE STATE BACKERS,
H Unruly Ones at Convention May Be Dropped From
i Rolls; Notice in Sinn Fein Center Threatens
Reprisals Against Protestants
IIOVT0. March 27. (By tin
aaociMB6 I"itnv.) The Irish
!ci State bill passed Its ihlrd
and final reading in the Uouse of
lord-' Unlay.
DUBLIN'. Mardi 27. (By Th,e As-)
soclated Press.) The convention Ofl
Irish Republican army members,
I which had been foi bidden by the Dail
I Eireann cabinet, ended its lengthy
session late Sunday night without ex j
i elting any outward ikmonsi rat ion.
The provisional Free State gi.eern
i rpent made no attempt to Interfere
! lth the proceedings and has not dcfl-
nltely stated It will tike any action
j although it is generally supposed thai
3hose who attended will be treated as
imving separated themselves from the
I best of the army and their names
may possibly be stricken from the
E 1 army rolls
The action of the convention In
I unanimously adopting a resolution re-
I affirming the delegates' allegiance to i
I 1 1 the Irish republic met with strong
' condemnation among the supporters
I of the Free State. The Irish Indc-
E pendent today sftld:
j CONTROL OF ARMY
I "Many times in the past have our
I people become divided In a crisis,
when unity was essential. Today wo j
I witness the same uncdifying. deplor-
I able spectacle Disunion has h.en
I forced on the country The!
I resolution passed by the s.-i loi.a 1
I J convention amounts in effect to re
I production of the Dall Eireann, yet
I F-amon do Valera Insisted that tho
I dall is the supreme authority in Ire-j
I land.
I "In all democrat lcally-rro erneil
I countries, Including republics llkoi
I France and America, the army Is
strictly subject to tho control of civil
I authority or the government for the
I H timo being. Wherever departiin i
I from that constitutional system have
I taken place, grave events, sometimes
I atnounting to establishment of u mill-
tary dictatorship, have followed.'
WRITER ARRESTED
I The correspondent of the Freeman's
I Journal at Charleville, County Cork.
I has been arrested Apparently, i: a
I the newspaper, the Irish r pnnhc an
army authorities there were offended I
by his report of an attempt to break!
I up a pro-treatv meeting at Charle
ville. The Freeman's Journal adds that
while it takes no stand for special j
II privileges for the press it considers;
I the arrest part of a scheme by the'
J "treaty wreckers" to stifle expression '
of public opinion and to Intimidate
individual journalists
LIFE FOR A LIFE.
BELFAST. March 27. (By The
Associated Press.) A notice pi I
near the city hall In Dundulk. Count;
1 I Louth, a strong Sinn Fein center n r
I the northern border of the free
territory, calls attention to the ab"
sence of any resolution by the mm
Catholic body of County Louth
II against murderous acts, and ca'li Hp-.
Mm on the Protestants to "a t Imme-j
L dlately, falling which we ore deter
, at mined to use the same means as they
1" in Belfast used to our fellow Catb
II ollcf."
"On and after March 29." II
1 j notice, "for every Catholic man wom
an, boy, girl or child murdered or
maltreated, so also shall the same
quantity of helpers of the systematic,
murder of our fellow Catholics meet
the same, fate."
The notice concludes "signed by or
der of the silent, but sure messen
gers." 51 11 EN WORE KTL1 l i
The l ister cabinet today accepted
! tho Invitation extended by Colonial
Secretary Churchill to a conference In
London of Irish leaders, clle 1 In
view of tho disturbed conditions In
Ireland.
Deaths in the hospitals of two
wounded persons Sunday night
brought the total fatalities In tho dis
orders of the week-end to seven,
Ct h.i.ins RES I Mil 1
I DUBLIN. March 27. (By the As
sociated Press. ) Before the an
nouncement that Premier Sir James
Craig of Flster had accepted the
British government's Invitation to go
to London had reached Dublin, Mich
ael Collins, head of the provisional
government, held a meeting of his
I cabin it ministers, after which tho fol
lowing statement was Issued:
' At the present moment it has not
boon announced Whether Sir James
Craig Intended to accept tho invitation
of the British government But In
any cuse Mr. Collins proposes lo trav
el to London with some of his col
leagues tonight an the firs', responsi
bility for the Northeastern situation
rests with the British government. It
is they who brought tho Belfast par
liament into exislonco. It is they
who have given It power and money,
which It Is using In its campaign of
wholesale murder and outrage against
our co-religionists."
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GERMAN WAR DEAD
TOTAL 12,000,000
BERLIN, March 27. (By the Asso
ciated Press) Forty-six men were
kiljed and 109 wounded on the German
side during every hour that the world
war was raging, according to an esti
mate arrived at by General Von Alt
rock, a statistician. This estimate was
made from a study of official records.
Germany's losses totalled In dead
1 . 1 1 " . and in wound-,". l.'J4i.,77.'
Men to the number of 13,000,000 w re
under arms during the course of war.
of whom about one In seven was killed
in battle. ,
The officers' corps lost 53,000 men
killed and 96,000 wounded. German
soldier and civilian losses through
death, caused directly or indirectly by
the war. are estimated by General Von
Altrock at 12,000.000.
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SLAYS GIRL WIFE,
MOTHER AND SELF
MARIETTA. O , March 27 Dewey
Brltton, 2 3. a farmer living near
Torch, Athens county, Sunday shot
and killed his 17-year-old wife and
her mother, Mrs Hoy CI. i ike. BO. and
then ended his own life with a shot
gun. Neighbors who arrived shortly
after the shooting found the three
bodies and the Brlttons' baby daugh
ter crying In a baby carriage nearby.
Mrs. Brltton had been separated
from her husband I
(CHILD'S PLEA HALTS
BANDIT ABOUT TO
KILL FATHER
CHICAGO. March 27. A
child's plea "Mister bandit,
please don't shoot daddy; he'll
give you his money," caused
one of two holdup men who
were robbing a drug store late
Sunday to withhold fire from a
pistol pointed at Thomas Mur
phy, a customer. Murphy, in
the store with his son, showed
fight and one robber had
knocked him down. He sur
rendered $75. The robbers stole
64 pints of whisky, a quantity
or narcotics and $75 from the
drug store.
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LLOYD GEORGE
j FEELS BETTER
LONDON, March 27. (By the As
sociated Press.) Prime Minister
l.lovd Ciorge, expected )n London to
day from Crlccleth, Wales, where he
; has been resting" for the lust two
weeks, has benefitted wonderfully
from the brief vacation and is return
ing relnvigorated his friends say.
I Mr Lloyd Goorge will not resume
I his usual activities immediately, how
: ever, and it Is understood that after
I one night in london he will go for a
lew days to his country place, CheQ
' uers court, where he will further con
sider the plans for the Genoa confer
ence and prepare for his speech to the
house of commons a week from today
Wh n he Will seek a vqte of confi
dence. I Hiring his brief stay in Iondon he
naturally will consult with his col-1-
iu'iK s m the cabinet and is likely to
have an Important talk with the
Italian foreign minister, M. Schan
zcr, who came to London overnight
from Paris. This conversation, it is
understood will deal entirely with the
Genoa conference and bo a sort of
' sequel to Mr. Lloyd George's exchange
of views with th French premier, M.
I Poincarc, at Boulogne.
M. Schanzer, will preside at the
majority of the sessions in Genoa,
mler Pacta taking the chair only
at the opening meeting.
Mr. Lloyd Ut-orgc is not expected to
participate In the conference of Irish
ieaders in London should that meet
ing be finally arranged, hut he Is llke
1 to see Arthur Griffith, president oi
the Dail Eireann. and Kamon J. Dug
gan. dail home minister, if they ar
rive today as expected.
It is believed generally that Mlch-
ael Collins, head of the provisional
I Free Stat" government, will follow
! his colleagues to London.
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ALLIES CONCEDE
TURKISH GUIS
Lands and Cities Divided
in Offer Made to End
War With Greeks
PARIS. March 27. (By the Associ
ated Press) Turkey Is conceded ne&T
l all her claims except those to Ailrl
lanoplo and part of ea.stern Thrace. In
I the memorandum which ih- allied fo'f
, elgn ministers today forwarded lo Ath-
IrriK. Anifora an,i Constantinople with n
view to Its acceptances as a prelimin
ary peace settlement, revising tho trea
ty of Sevres.
The Enos-Medlal line In Thrace Is
modified so as to give Turkey more
territory on the Bulgarian frontier but
I the old Turkish capital of Adrianople
, Is excluded.
Constantinople remains Turkish and
'she retains Armenia, with the popula
tion under league of nations protec
itlon. but she loses the Uallipoll penin
sula, and Mesopotamia. . The foreign
I ministers give the Greek and Turkish
'belligerents thres weeks In which to
reply to the proposed terms,
FEATURES OF I FFER
The features of the preliminaries to
peace proposed to Greece and the
Turks by the foreign ministers are:
Perpetual freedom of navigation of
the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus.
Turkish sovereignty over all of Aula
Minor and all of the territory bounded
by the Caucasus, Persia, Mesopotamia
and the Mediterranean and Aegean
I seas.
Th? Armenians to be under the pro
jection of the league of nations, but
jthe territory Inhabited by them to be
j under the sovereignty of Turkey with
an eventual national home to be
'tound'd f"r thi in by th" I .1 lt u
Adrianople to go to tho Greeks, but
(a large percentage of Thrace to be re
turned to Turkey.
The peninsula of Gallipull to go to
Greece.
PURPOSES ST IlTT D
Tho foreign ministers In then- mem
orandum Inform the belligerents that
the desire of the allies Is ;(i i - c Ji
llsh peace and to re-establish the Tur
iklsh nation in the territories that nro
considered belonging to it. to assume
the Musselman population of the most
equitable regime; to give Greece com
pensation for the sacrifices she made
In the war; to protect the racial min
orities and to prevent further wars be
tween Turkey and the European pow
ers. To this tho ministers add:
"The people or the government that
I would rejeet these propositions
, through prejudice assumes the respon
sibility for the continuation of the .n
fllct." ARM EN I W PROTECTION
Dealing with Armenia, the document
says:
"The situation of the Armenians h.ts
received a special consideration, as
much on account of the obligation
contracted by tho allied powers dur
ing the war as on account of the cruel
suffering endured by that people. Con
sequently the aid of the league of na
tions Is sought In addition to provis
ions made for the protection of minor
(ties, with a view to satisfying the tra
ditional aspirations of the Armenian
people and the establishment of a na
tional home for them."
DANGER Ol CLOSURE
The docurat nt flo i not mention any
particular territory where the national
home may eventually be fixed, but lt
specifics that the territory now inhab
ited by the Armenians shall be under
Turkish sovereignty
With regard to the Dardanelles the
communication reads:
"The Turks axe allowed again on the
Asiatic shore of the Dardanelles, but
the Interests of peace and security for
tho future require that Europe shall
never again be exposed to the perils
and secraflces imposed upon lt In 1914
by the closing of the Dardanelles and
the condition for the return of the
Turks to the proximity of the struts
in in the establishment of a demilitar
ised district, making any projects in
that region improbable.
"An allied force of occupation must
be placed ; nd maintained on the Ualli
poll peninsula, however, to assure free
dom of navigation of the straits."
TURK AICMY LIMITED
The foreign ministers round eastern
Thrace their most difficult problem,
they stated. They finally decided on a
linerunnlng from Ganos. on the sea of
Marmora, to t he-Bulgarian frontier In
the region of the Istranja mountains,
leaving Rodosto, a Greek town, to
Turkey, and Klrk-Klllsaeh, a Turkish
town, to Greece.
The southern end of this line Is more
favorable to the Greeks than that laid
down by the treaty of Sevres, but the
northern end considerably favors Tur
key The foreign ministers demanded the
suppression of obligatory military ser
vice In Turkey and the restriction of
the army to 46,000 and tho police to
JiJ.OUO regular troops
The final clauses of the treaty of
Sevres are somewhat modified, but the
commission on debt is maintained and
a commltteo on liquidations is appoint
ed to assure the payment of the Turk
ish pre-war debt and fix the indemnity
due the allies for war damages. An
Other commission Is recommended to
modify the capitulation system.
MARY GARDEN IS
LATEST RADIO FAN
SAN FRANCISCO, March 27 To
tho growing list of radio fans add
Mary Garden The grand opera man
ager and singer who was to bring the
Chicago Grand Opora company to San
Kranclsco fo'r tho annual engagement
has telegraphed ahead to the hotel
where she will stay and requested
nay. demanded that her suite be
equipped not only with a radio receiv
ing set. but with a high power broad
casting sei as well.
The demand has been answered. So
it Is more than possible that other ra
dio enthusiasts of the Pacoflc coast in
their dally concerts via the ether, will
have in addition ti tho regular pro
grams of phonograph selection, solos
by Mary Garden In person broadcasted
by hi r own radio outfit, straight from
her room.
ROLE OF SOLOMON
ENACTED BY MAYOR
WIDSON. N. C. March 2 7. Mayor
Klllette, called upon in city court hero
tu enact the role of Solomon In a case
Involving ownershin Of a large Dom
Inlcker rooster, settled the question
and at the same time proved the adage
: Lhat "chickens como home to roost"
Uler Thomas, nogro. swore out
warrant, charging Annie Graham, also
a negro, with stealing the rooster
The mayor, recalling that chickens
were reputed to "'come home to rooet"
decreed that at sundown the Domln
icker be placed mid -way between the
two homes. The rooster, thus given
his cholCM. endod the dn-putu by se
lecting Dller's chicken house In which
lo roost.
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G. 0. P. 'RECORD
UNDER REVIEW
Coolliclge Claims Great Pro
gress, Much Economy
During First Year
NEW YORK. March 27 Th first
year of President Harding's adminis
tration has been a period of progress
with an almost incredibl' achieve
ment In economy, Vice President Cal
vin Coolldge declared in an address
Sunday before the Brooklyn Institute
of Aits and Sciences
Asserting that public employes had
been reduced nearly 60.000. th" army
by S5.000 and large reduction- pro
posed in the naval forces, all of
which were beginning to show In Ihe
government's appropriation and ex
penditures the vice pre-dden said:
EXPENSES Hi !l I RD
rl,-,T- ffi t)ie war the annual .m-
proprlations were a little over a bil
lion dollars. For the last fiscal year
they were slightly more than $6,50.0,
000,000 For the present fiscal year It
Is estimated that this will be reduced
to somewhat less than $4,000,000,000
and for tho next fiscal year for which
appropriations are now being made,
there will be a reduction to about
$3,500,000,000
If, from present expenditure?,
there be deducted those ltenn that
arose from tho war and the extra
amount now being expended on sood
roads and the army and navy, the
present cost of running the govern
ment would not exceed the pre-war
cost by more than two or three hun
dred millions.
"This represents an achievement in
economv which is almost incredible."
NATAL AGREEM? N'T
Stating that the Washington armS
conference 'proceeded on the funda-,
mental theory of substituting for the
sanction of force in international re
lations the sanction of reason.'' Mr. I
Coolldge asserted:
"It has been a year of progress al-
together worthy of a great people, lt
does not mean that the burdensf ex
istence are to be lifted from man-,
kind. It does not mean that military
establishments are to be no longer
required. An agreement to maintain 1
a parity between navies is not an!
agreement to abolish navies. There
Will be a great saving of expenditure, i
but It will not bo so much La present,
costs as in future requirements. These
great remedial pollcll which are bo-1
ing adopted are fundamental In prin
ciple They mean lhat hereafter a
larger proportion of human effort can
go into productive activity
An adequate organization for ad-'
ministering government relief of war
cterans was on Of the tirst domet--tle
problems, he said, which later
was placed under the supervision of
tho bureau.
"It Is to realize," he added, "what
a stupendous task this work Is. when
it is remembered that there has nt
rcady been paid to disabled veterans,
and their dependent relatives, about
a billion and a half dollars and there
j is going out of the treasury each day
close to a million and a quarter dol
lars. The government already has
I nearly 30. mm hospital beds ami will
j soon have 35,000. There are about
i 29,000 men already In hospitals who
I receive, besides their keeping and
I care, from ?80 to $157 each month.
I There are about 105.000 men r I slv.
j Ing vocational training, most of them
under pay and at a maximum cost of
$160 each per month. There are
5.000 schools used throughout the
country for training ex-scrvlce men
and 7.000 institutions for placement
I training "
He said ihe shipping hoard prob
lem was "to get the srovernment out
of the shipping business with as lit
tle loss as possible and to provide -in
American merchant marine that
American goods might not have to be
carried to market in the ships of
competitors, and that there might be
sufficient ships to provide an ade
quate nutlonal defense." There is now
a fair prospect, he asserted, that the
country will have a merchant mar
ine, "supported from a small propor
tion of the revenue derived from sldp
ninK arul hidillnL' n nlaei- on the i j
worthy of the American people."
EUROPEAN TANGLES.
Conptruetive economy. Mr. Coolldge
said, has been the first thought and
the chief effort of the present admin- j
Istration, To secure that, he declared, j
is to accomplish reconstruction
'There has been a steady determin
ation not to interfere In those Euro
pean affairs with which we hid no
direct concern," he said. "When tnere
was an attempt to place responslblll- j
lies on our government for the firing
of the reparations, it was firmly de-
ellned, but with tho assertion that j
reparations must be met to the limit
of ability.
"There has likewise been a refusal
to participate In the Genoa confer
ence out of a feeling that the chief
causes of economic dlsturuanco in !
Europe can only be settled by their
pwn domestic action and our unwill
ingness to become involved In any
way in their political -lu-stlon."
MEXICO WD KUSSIA.
The vice president referred to the
refusal of Mexico to execute the
treaty offered her "which would have
recognized her government and de
clared her adherence to thoi prin
ciples of protection of the rights of !
persons and of property which are the I
necessary mark of a civilized tate."
"A more than friendly Interest In
the people of Russia," he added, "has
been declared in our willingness to
consider commercial relations on the;
presentation of assurancos tha there";
is (0 be maintained th'i.ie rights of j
fre labor, respect for contracts and
(jprurltv of property, without which)
there can be no commerce, an. I cur;
good faith demonstrated by greut pri
vate charities and the appropriation;
of twenty millions of dollars for Ihe
relief of her starving populations."
Bats are directed in their flight by;
a special sense of hearing and by.
sound waves. ' '
CONFESSES LOOTING
SCORES OF HOMES
CHICAGO, March 27 Burglaries
ot scores of homes the loot from which
I totalled more than $600,000. were at
tributed by 'he police to Edward ("Ed
Idle") Collins, known as the "aclentlflc
burglar," and from whom they said
they had obtained a detailed confes-
Collins, according to the police, al- W
ways made it a rule to "work alone" Lv
never to bother with what he called
I "small stuff," and to specialize In a
profitable territorj wtttch he knew
thoroughly Most of his alleged rob
Iberles were committed during the ab- H
sence of owners from their home
I After he had picked up everything
worth while in a house or apartment i
l as - lid, he would use the telephone
t' i al a taxkab in whic h to make his
1 pe. The boldness of his operation
drove police and detectives to despera- -lion.
all Of his Ill-gotten gains, ho was
quoted as saying, had been spent on
'' "' " was to the craving for
jh- thai he attributed to his down-
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